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The Battle of Palo Alto, fought on May 8, 1846, near modern Brownsville, Texas, was the first battle of the Mexican–American War.On April 30, 1846, Mexican federal troops under the command of General Mariano Arista crossed the Rio Grande into the disputed territory east of the river with the intention of attacking American General Zachary Taylor's forward base, Fort Texas.
The Resaca de la Palma Battlefield is a separate unit of the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park, located in northern Brownsville on the east side of Paredes Line Road north of East Price Road. The battlefield occupies a bend the Resaca de la Palma, an oxbow-like body of water that is part of the delta of the Rio Grande. The site is ...
The Battle of Palo Alto is commemorated by letters in marble floor below. [41] Mexican War Memorial, Veterans Park, College Station, Texas, with sculpture by J. Payne Lara. [42] [43] Mexican War Veterans memorial, unveiled 2014, Corpus Christi, Texas [44] Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park [45]
Sep. 3—It's a humid Saturday morning as a small group gathers on the edge of the prairie in the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park as Ruben Martinez, dressed as a 19th-century ...
The rout of General Arista's army at Resaca de la Palma also relieved the Mexican siege of Fort Texas, where a garrison had been left following Taylor's move to Point Isabel prior to the Battle of Palo Alto. [4] Only eight miles from Palo Alto and four miles from Resaca de la Palma, the garrison was well within earshot of the fighting and the ...
A Mexican soldier at Palo Alto. Facing north and moving left to right, General Arista's army consisted of General Antonio Canales Rosillo's 400 irregular cavalry in chaparral, Anastasio Torrejon's cavalry brigade consisting of the 8th, 7th and Light Cavalry, astride the Point Isabel road, then came General Jose Maria Garcia's brigade of the 4th and 10th Infantry with two 8-pounders, then ...
EcoCenter, Palo Alto Baylands, Palo Alto [11] Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, San Jose; Museum of American Heritage, Palo Alto; NASA Ames Exploration Center, Mountain View; Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo, Palo Alto; San Jose electric light tower (model, in History Park at Kelley Park, San Jose) San Jose State University, downtown San Jose
Palo Alto: Also on the NRHP list as NPS-76000528 John Adams Squire House: 857: John Adams Squire House: 900 University Ave. Palo Alto: Also on the NRHP list as NPS-72000255 Juana Briones de Miranda Home: 524: Juana Briones de Miranda Home: 4157 Old Adobe Rd.